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Scapegoating and the Road to Political Persecution

Academy of Ideas

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The Pathologies of the Totalitarian Politiker and Bureaucrat

Every time totalitarianism is tried, it devolves into mass killings by the government in power. Will we permit the rise of totalitarian rule? If we do, the result will be the same as it was in the 20th century. There will be no room for any bad thing to exist. Nothing and no one will be out of place. The totalitarian mind is similar to the schizophrenic mind. It sticks to its ideological model of the world in the face of disconfirming evidence. They tend to hate those who try to pierce its illusions.

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